Gender, age and subject matter: Impact on teachers' ecological values

Environmentalist

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-122

  Oerke, Britta ^a,b   Bogner, Franz X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

2 MEV model; Age; E. values; Environmental attitudes; Environmental perception; Gender; Student teachers; Teachers

Indexed keywords

AGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; GENDER; PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STUDENT; TEACHING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EUROPE;

MINK ENTERITIS VIRUS;

EID: 77951938236     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-009-9250-4     Document Type: Article

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